Co[n]corda[n]cias eva[n]gelistar[um] collectas per vene[r]abilem magistrum Joha[n]ne[m] Gerson cacellariu[m] Parisien[sis] q[ui]s intitulavit monotesseron aut unum ex quatuor.

Accession number:

PML 20580.2

Author:

Gerson, Jean, 1363-1429.

Published:

[Cologne] : [Printer of 'Dialogus Salomonis et Marcolfi' (Ludwig von Renchen?)], [not after 1478].

Description:

[68] leaves ; 29 cm (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1917.

Notes:

Printed in type 1:95G attributed to the Printer of 'Dialogus Salomonis et Marcolfi' (Ludwig von Renchen?).
A copy in Stuttgart has an owner's date of 1478 (ISTC).
Collation: [1-5¹⁰ 6⁸ 7¹⁰]: 68 leaves, leaves [1]/1 and [7]/10 blank. Variant collation in GW.
Paper format: Chancery folio
On the identification of the press, see S. Corsten, Anfänge des Kölner Buchdrucks, pp. 93ff.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.7 x 20.8 cm.

Variant Title:

Concordantiae IV evangelistarum

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Rubricated, red lombards, paragraph marks, capital strokes, and underlining; several lombards unrealized. The rubrication and quire signatures between the three works in this binding do not match. Annotations: Manuscript quire signatures, mainly trimmed. Manuscript title on first blank, leaf [1]/1r. Marginal numeral notations.

Provenance:

Dülmen (North Rhine-Westphalia), Carthusian monastery, St. Mary (Marienburg), ownership inscription: "Pertinet domui cast[ri] Marie p[ro]pe Dulmania[m] ord[inis] cartus[iensis]," and shelf mark D 782 (front pastedown) and binding; Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919), booklabel (front pastedown); his sale, Christie's, 10 Dec. 1917, lot 46 to Quaritch (with collation note, rear pastedown) for Morgan; J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased Dec. 1917 (accessioned July 1919).

Classification:

Incunable Collection

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Genres:

Incunabula

Department:

Printed Books